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WILLIAM HALL, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND SAMUEL PECK & CO., .OE NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 95,899, dated October 19, 1869.

' IMPROVED ROSE FOR DOOR-KNOBS. d

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HALL, of Boston, i the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented -oertain newand useful Improvements in a Rose for Door-Knobs, of which the following is a specification.

'Na-ture and Objects of the Invention. The nature of my inventionv consists of a new and Vimproved. method of connecting the metallic parts of a washer with the non-metallic parts, the whole forming a rose for a door-knob.

Descriptionof the Accompanying Drawings.

Figure l shows in perspective mygimproved washer. Figure 2 is a section of the same.

General Description.

This moulded part may consist of rubber, papew ntach, terra-cotta, orfof any other suitable composition. The composition patented by John Gardner,

dated January 7, 1868, is the substance I now use.

From the above description, it will be seen that all of the parts of the Washer that are exposed to the hand or the eye are of composition, and may be made in any desired design, or of any color, While all parts that are exposed to friction or strain are metallic, so that I have combined in .my washer elegance and durability.

I claim, as my invention- The moulded composition Washer C, in which the metallic part D E is moulded into the non-metallic part, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

WM. HALL.

Witnesses A. HUN BERRY, '\V. F. HALL. 

